{"product_id":"9781611685589","title":"Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s","description":"With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates \"life on the ground\" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua franca of Israel, the uses of humor, and the effects of a constant military presence, along with such familiar aspects of daily life as communal dining on the kibbutz, the nightmare of trying to board a bus, and moviegoing as a form of escapism. In the process Helman shows how ordinary people adapted to the standards and rules of the political and cultural elites and negotiated the chaos of early statehood.","brand":"Brandeis University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130341572848,"sku":"9781611685589","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611685589_p0.jpg?v=1763840091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611685589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}